Jason Slater Weblog

I’ve claimed my blog at Technorati recently and I’m proud to announce that my blog is currently ranked at 2,949,944 - not bad for a world full of billions of people - at least that’s how I’ll look at it
http://technorati.com/

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I finally found it. I’ve been searching all week. The golden disc shone like a beacon. There I was, on my hands and knees scrabbling about on the floor in the computer room. I had one of those small blue light torches and was trying to look under the cabinet as that was the last [...]

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I was unpacking the rest of the server today and something popped into my head.
If someone orders some styrofoam, what does it get packed in?

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Whilst researching for a post earlier I happened upon a Microsoft technet article and duly copied and pasted the URL. It was only later that I discovered the actual URL started http://thesource.ofallevil.com instead of http://www.microsoft.com.
Apparently, some one has registered this domain and CNAMEd it to point to Microsofts own website. It seems apparently harmless at [...]

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The Windows Internet Naming Service, or WINS, I have the joy of working on this afternoon. Rendered almost pointless by Active Directory and DDNS, particularly in our setup, it is surprising that I can’t just switch it off. Certainly most documents insist that from Windows 2000 onwards Active Directory and Dynamic DNS replace WINS and [...]

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